The document summarizes key points from a workshop on writing across the curriculum and using the 6 Traits model to evaluate student writing. It discusses establishing a school-wide writing policy, including committing administrators and teachers, allocating time and resources for writing, providing training, and aligning practices with research on effective writing instruction. The 6 Traits model provides a framework to give students specific feedback through analytic scoring in ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.